one day there will be a statue of Harold Covington in every town in the US

What a story! A white nationalist rebel group fights against the US government with the methods of guerilla warfare in the Northwestern USA. I have never read a thrilling novel like that. "The Brigade" is much better than the Turner Diaries, because it is more realistic. Wow!

"The Brigade" is the best WNF novel ever in my eyes. The revolutionary scenario is realistic and well conceived. Moreover, the book has a dystopic touch with a rebellious spirit like f.e. "Prey World" etc. Great work!

This novel is not for everyone. If you believe that the U.S. should be a multicultural society, where perversion of various kinds is accepted, where pedophiles run rampant, and where the colors of the various races will bleed into one, then this book isn't for you.

However, if you are white, male/female, heterosexual and are sick and tired of being blamed for everything wrong in American society - you might get some enjoyment out of the novel. It's fast paced, the characters are believeable and the military aspects are real enough. If anyone studies insurgency movements, they soon discover that most start out in much the same way that Covington describes - as a group of friends who band together for a common purpose, in this case, establishing a homeland for whites "where a white child can grow up in the world of Jane Austen, not the world of 'A Clockwork Orange.'"

Yes there is racism present in the novel - it's in the reader's face and it's pervasive. What of it? The U.S. has been dominated by the PC-infused nitwits from both parties for the past 20 years or so and 'Brigade' addresses those issues, admittedly in a very violent manner, but the author does address where the U. S. might be headed if certain ideologies prevail, namely the 'let's blame Whitey for all the wrongs in soceity and let's all accept every behavior from any minority because it's their right, blah, blah, blah.'

Overall, it's a well written book, with some minor spelling/typographical errors and is very logical in its plot progression. Those reviewers who give this book and others in the saga [now up to 4 books - 6, if you include 'Fire and Rain' and 'A Slow Coming Darkness'], on this site and others, fail to see that there is a significant part of the white population that has had enough of the b.s. that has been shoved down their throats since the 1960s. This book is an important step in reversing some of the more uglier trends of the previous half-century. Having said that, it's definitely not for the faint-hearted or Politically Correct/Corrupt, coffehouse, postmodernist crowd.

The Brigade is the last of Harold Covington's Northwest Trilogy Novels. Covington is a neo-Nazi living in the Seattle area, who wants to create an all white fascist Northwest Republic out of Oregon, Washington State and Idaho. In the Northwest Republic all Jews, blacks, Hispanics and Asians would be banned, all power would reside in one supreme leader and there would be no courts, to correct the abuses of the government or its leaders, who would even have the power to order Summary Execution.

The Brigade is Covington's fantasy about how the Northwest Republic will come about. He envisions gangs of "white solders" driving around shooting blacks, hispanics, Jews, liberals, gays and FBI agents just as the DC snipers, John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo did.

Like Charles Manson, Timothy McVey or the Michigan militia group, The Hutaree, Covington believes these random murders will start a race war or insurrection against the government.

This novel is unless other than a look into how a sick racist mind works.

AN UNBELIEVABLY OUTSTANDING NOVEL. COULD NOT STOP READING. NOT PERSONALLY A RELIGIOUS MAN, HOWEVER I WOULD BE WILLING TO DO MORE THAN JUST PRAY FOR THE SENTIMENTS EXPRESSED HERE! AND SOME PRAYER TO BOOT.